This mod is different in that it doesn’t add much in the way of content. It doesn’t make many changes, either. It just allows you to be more creative with your paintings by adding more slots to your paintings file. It doesn’t remove the defaults, just changes the way minecraft reads the paintings file so you have more paintings to mess with. If a painting slot is empty, it will be ignored. It also plays very nicely with the Painting Selection GUI mod, which will make sorting through your paintings easier (you’ll almost need it with this mod. Trust me.)

I love mods that add aesthetic properties into minecraft. I can never manage to build anything that looks good, so stuff like this makes my jaw drop in amazement. This mod adds in a few new worldgen things that look absolutely amazing, and that are really useful. The stalagmites can damage falling enemies, making for some nice monster traps, but you do need a silk touch pickaxe to mine them and not get cobblestone. Different things also generate in different biomes. Stalagmites and stalactites spawn up in any biome, vines spawn up in any humid biomes, icicles spawn in cold biomes, in wet biomes there will be more water, sandstone stalagmites/stalactites spawn in arid biomes, ice generates in frozen biomes, and ice mushrooms spawn up in cold biomes. Cobwebs will randomly generate in caves. You also get glowstone dust when you destroy glowing mushrooms or ice mushrooms, and they can be sheared to get the mushrooms themselves. Monster heads will spawn on dungeon chests, and skeleton heads will spawn rarely inside of caves. You can also blacklist dimensions to turn this mod off in them, although I don’t see why you’d want to. This mod also doesn’t have any recipes for you to memorize, but here’s a screenshot of a ravine for you to look at:

The Chocapic13 Shaders Mod for Minecraft 1.6.2 is a great new mod that that allows use of a highly configurable deferred shading pipeline. What does this means is that you no longer have to settle for the boring textures of vanilla Minecraft! With this mod installed, you can incorporate many of the visual effects that you seen in modern games into your Minecraft world. This mod is very professional and allows for great looking textures. It transforms your dull, boring world into a beautiful landscape filled with wonder!

Just looking at this mod, I love it. There’s finally a good use for coal! I’ll get into that later, though.

The first thing you’ll want to get your hands on is the Smelter. It allows you to use redstone and lapis for other things. It acts just like a furnace, but only smelts redstone, and lapis blocks. It only runs on lava, and after they’re smelted you can use them to make tools and weapons.

Smelter Recipe:

Redstone tools textures, since I like them:

They look cool, don’t they?

The next thing you can make is steel. (Note: I’m pretty sure anything with a bucket in the fuel slot is Smelter-only.) First you have to crush some coal like this:

Flying is associated with freedom. Birds are seen to be free in generations by different cultures. What is believed to make them free a wings. Wings are also associated with freedom. They let you fly and sore through the skies. Leaving you one on one with the world.[click to continue…]

The Diamond Heaven Mod for Minecraft 1.6.2 is a very quirky mod by the developer ‘APH24′. In this mod, many biomes are flipped on their head and what you believe to be normal is called into question! The main thing in this mod is the Diamond terrain. Created by diamond ore and diamond blocks, this rich land will put a smile on anyone’s face! If you simply want a change in your Minecraft game then I cannot suggest this mod to you more. It is slightly strange, but it is also very fun![click to continue…]

Now with bows! Yep, he adds bows into a mod with ”Swords” in the title. Along with a bunch of new recipes for various things. The basic arrow gets a new recipe, which doesn’t require chickens (the old one’s still there):[click to continue…]

In Minecraft, the first thing we build is a house. After a few days of scavenging for resources. We build a nice house. The second thing we build, is a fireplace. It is essential in our house because it looks nice. However, when we build a the fireplace, we lack chimneys. Even if we replace it with a block, it just doesn’t look right since there is no smoke coming out.The mod is really small and adds chimneys to the game (they smoke). The beauty of it is that it makes the house with fireplace looks accomplished. It is just essential. It makes the whole place much more beautiful. It is a great example of how a small detail can affect a big picture.[click to continue…]